By Nicole Cheah, Digital Journalism Undergraduate | September 22, 2024
"The Oxford Handbook of Media and Social Justice, " co-edited by CODE^SHIFT director Dr. Srivi Ramasubramanian and Dr. Omotayo O. Banjo (Professor of Communication, Film, & Media Studies, University of Cincinnati) was published online on September 23, 2024. Print copies of the book are also available for pre-order, tentatively set to be released early October 2024. For purchase and rental options, click here. Use code ASPROP8 to receive 30% off your print pre-order.
The handbook, which marks Dr. Ramasubramanian's second book, gathers the work of over forty leading scholars, presenting a state-of-the-art systematic overview of media and social justice. The abstract, citation, full table of contents, and book keywords are detailed below.
A book launch and reception will be held at the Newhouse School on October 4, 2024, as part of CODE^SHIFT's 3rd Symposium on “Media & Social Justice: Global Perspectives”. Interested attendees may RSVP here by October 1st, 2024.
Abstract
The urgency and complexity of contemporary social justice issues facing the world today mean that activists, scholars, and storytellers need a readily available compendium of cutting-edge scholarship on media and social justice.
The Oxford Handbook of Media and Social Justice gathers over forty leading scholars and presents a state-of-the-art systematic overview of media and social justice. Representing leading voices across positionalities and perspectives, geographies and generations, meta-theories and methods, and issues and identities, the Handbook explores intersecting identities, social structures, and power networks within media ownership, representation, selection, uses, effects, networks, and social transformation. These theories, methods, and practices expose media and digital divides, polarization, marginalization, exclusion, alienation, invisibilities, stigma, and trivializations. Yet, they also showcase how individuals and communities also have agency through refusal and resistance. Each of the 32 chapters includes a brief history, key concepts, contemporary debates and dialogues, and future directions, and the volume concludes with reflections on resistances, reckoning, and reparative justice.
Connecting critical media scholarship with intersectional feminism, postcolonial/anticolonial theory, Indigenous approaches, queer theory, diaspora studies, and environmental justice frameworks, the Handbook re-envisions the role of media and technology with an inclusive trauma-informed approach to scholarship that is essential for the future of this research.
Citation
Ramasubramanian, Srividya, and Omotayo O. Banjo (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Media and Social Justice, Oxford Library of Psychology (2024; online edn, Oxford Academic, 19 Sept. 2024), https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197744345.001.0001.
Table of Contents
Section A: Introduction
Chapter 1: Perspectives, Positionalities, and Paradigms in Media & Social Justice Scholarship [ Omotayo O. Banjo and Srividya Ramasubramanian ]
Section B: Approaches and Analytic Frameworks
Chapter 2: Political Economy of Communication in the Digital Platform Era [ Dal Yong Jin ]
Chapter 3: The Limits of Diversity and Popular Anti-Racism: The Need for Reparative Justice in the Cultural Industries [ Anamik Saha ]
Chapter 4: Critical Media Effects: A Framework for Bridging Critical Cultural Communication with Media Effects Research [ Srividya Ramasubramanian and Omotayo O. Banjo ]
Chapter 5: Black Audiences and Media Resistance [ David Stamps ]
Chapter 6: "How Do You Shift That?": Dialoguing Social Justice, Activism, and Black Joy in Media Studies [ jas l. moultrie and Ralina L. Joseph ]
Chapter 7: Latine Media Studies: From Near Omission to Radical Intersectionality
[ Angharad N. Valdivia ]
Chapter 8: Queer of Color Approaches to Critical Cultural Media Studies [ Keisuke Kimura and Shinsuke Eguchi ]
Chapter 9: Queer and Transgender Media Studies [ Erique Zhang and Thomas J. Billard ]
Chapter 10: Digital Religion and the Negotiation of Gender/Sex Norms [ Ruth Tsuria ]
Chapter 11: Critical Disability Media Studies [ Katie Ellis and Jessica Keeley ]
Section C: Methods and Meaning Making
Chapter 12: Critical Discourse Analysis [ Marissa Doshi ]
Chapter 13: Data Justice: The Role of Data in Media and Social Justice [ Srividya Ramasubramanian, Shannon Burth, and Minnie Macmillian ]
Chapter 14: Justice Informatics, Justice for Us All: Liberation from Techno-Ideology [ Jasmina Tacheva and Tanya Loughead ]
Chapter 15: Researching Closed Fields: What We Can Learn from Analyzing So-Called Constrained, Inaccessible and Invisible Media Contexts [ Hanan Badr ]
Chapter 16: Digital Archives and Unexpected Crossings: A Data Feminist Approach to Transnational Feminist Media Studies and Social Media Activism [ Ololade M. Faniyi & Radhika Gajjala ]
Section D: Resistance and Revisioning
Chapter 17: Mediated Socioeconomic Injustice: Representations of Poor and Working Class People in Mainstream Media [ Charisse L'Pree Corsbie-Massay ]
Chapter 18: Challenging Caste Hierarchies in Tamil Cinema[ Swarnavel Eswaran ]
Chapter 19: Media Representations, Incarceration, and Social Justice [ Adam Key ]
Chapter 20: Heroes of the Border: Using Counternarratives to Break Border Stereotypes and Create Superhero Narratives [ Anthony R. Ramirez ]
Chapter 21: Media Creation and Consumption as Activism among African Transnational and Diasporic communities [ Omotayo O. Banjo and Tomide Oloruntobi]
Chapter 22: Subaltern Digital Cultures: Precarious Migrants on TikTok [ Elisha Lim, Satveer Kaur-Gill, and Krittiya Kantachote ]
Chapter 23: Media & Mental Health Interventions among Migrants: Addressing the Disparities [ Rukhsana Ahmed and Seulgi Park ]
Chapter 24: Health Media Activism: Latin American Organizing in Response to Feminicides [ Leandra Hinojosa Hernandez ]
Chapter 25: Using Artificial Intelligence to Address Health Disparities: Challenges and Solutions [ Kelly Merrill Jr. ]
Chapter 26: Pedagogies of Resistance - Social Movements and the Construction of Communicative Knowledge in Brazil [ Paola Sartoretto ]
Chapter 27: Emboldening Democratic Pedagogies about Media and Justice through Critical Media Literacy and Peer Teaching [ Andrea Gambino and Jeff Share ]
Chapter 28: Alternative Cultures of Resistance and Collective Organizing in the Platform Economy [ Cheryll Ruth Soriano ]
Chapter 29: LGBT Activism, Social Media and the Politics of Queer Visibility in Ghana
[ Godfried A. Asante, Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed, and Ama B. Appiah-Kubi ]
Chapter 30: Indigenous Environmental Media Activism in South Asia [ Uttaran Dutta ]
Chapter 31: Indigenous Media Organizing [ Mohan J. Dutta and Christine Elers ]
Section E: Conclusion
Chapter 32: The Future of Media & Social Justice: Resistances, Reckoning, and Reparative Justice [ Srividya Ramasubramanian and Omotayo O. Banjo ]
Book Keywords
Political economy
Reparative justice
Critical media effects
Anti-racism in media
Black joy in media studies
Latine media studies
Queer of color media
Transgender media studies
Digital religion
Critical disability studies
Data justice
Justice informatics
Digital archival research
Social media activism
Critical discourse analysis
Constrained media
Socieconomic injustice
Caste hierarchies
Incarceration
Counter-stereotypes
Diasporic communities
Subaltern digital cultures
Media & mental health
Latin american organizing
AI & health disparities
Social movements
Critical media literacy
Platform economy
Feminist media studies
Politics of queer visibility
Environmental media activism
Indigenous media organizing
Reparative justice
Black joy in media studies
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